The Cordillera Blanca is Peru's climbing highlight, an amazing range with the highest ice-encrusted peaks glistening against the bright blue sky. This range is one portion of the 7,500 km Andean chain that runs along the West coast of South America.

Peru 's location created a great diversity of weather patterns depending if you are in the lowlands or highlands. The weather depends on the altitude of the places and the rainfall that can create extreme temperatures. It is characterized by a tundra dry cold weather region Cordillera Negra (Black Range), and the Cordillera Blanca (White Range) which has continuous snowfall weather proper of the high mountain range followed by humid tropical amazon basin.

The amazing natural environment of Peru is the craddle of South America's most magnificent and diverse cultures, which are widespread from the coastal plains to the high Andes and the Amazonian forest. Two languages are spoken in the region, Spanish and Quechua. The indigenous Quechua people, whose ancestry can be traced directly to the Incas, continue to weave intriguing tales and myths around the mountains of the Cordillera Blanca and live in the shadows of the Andes practicing subsistence farming and animal husbandry much as their ancestors did. In the picturesque villages below the magnificent mountainscapes of the Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Huayhuash, we interact with friendly Quechua people sharing their cultural insights and traditions.This rich cultural backdrop offers interesting glimpses into the past and one of South America's most important cultural vestiges, the vast Inca Empire which adds immensely to the overall experience of climbing in Peru and one of the great ranges of the world. This legendary land of great geographical and cultural contrasts is beyond your imagination...

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